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FRIENDS star Matthew Perry has revealed he has spent three months in hospital following surgery to repair a ruptured bowel.

Last month, a spokeswoman for the actor, 49, said he underwent an operation in Los Angeles and was “grateful for the concern and asks for continued privacy as he heals”.

On Friday, Perry tweeted to say he was still in hospital. It was his first tweet since March.

He said: “Three months in a hospital bed. Check.”

A punctured bowel — or gastrointestinal perforation — can occur along any point in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach, small intestine and large intestine.

Symptoms include severe abdominal pain.

This is not the first health battle Perry has dealt with, which he has shared publicly with his fans.

Matthew Perry in the Friends movie trailer that was a hoax. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

He has previously been quite open about his struggles with alcohol and Vicodin addiction.

“I couldn’t stop,” Perry told PEOPLE in 2013.

“Eventually things got so bad that I couldn’t hide it, and then everybody knew.”

Perry has also been a voice for others facing similar conditions.

“You can’t have a drug problem for 30 years and then expect to have it be solved in 28 days,” Perry told The Hollywood Reporter in a video for Phoenix House, a California-based treatment centre where Perry has gotten treatment.